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macrohistory

macrohistory noun: a form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.

Noun

macrohistory (countable and uncountable, plural macrohistories)

  1. A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
    • These days, it’s chiefly nonhistorians like Jared Diamond and Tim Flannery who seek to trace the long arc of the species and write macrohistory in a scientific key.2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    microhistory

Antonyms of macrohistory

Forms of macrohistory

pluralmacrohistories

Origin of macrohistory

From macro- + history.

Questions about macrohistory

What does macrohistory mean?
Macrohistory means a form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
What part of speech is macrohistory?
Macrohistory is a noun.
What is the plural of macrohistory?
The plural of macrohistory is macrohistories.

Words near macrohistory in the dictionary

  1. macrohistorians
  2. macrohistoric
  3. macrohistorical
  4. macrohistorically
  5. macrohistories
  6. macrohistory
  7. macrohomogeneities
  8. macrohomogeneity
  9. Macrohon
  10. macroimage
  11. macroimages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macrohistory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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